Sunday Starts

 

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

I'm Back.

Hope everyone is enjoying the New Year thus far.

We finally got some snow yesterday.

Only an inch or so, but it was nice seeing it falling down.

Come February I know I will hate it. LOL

Back in September

when my mom and I visited

the family cemetery plots, 

there was a reason for my madness. 

I had watched a You Tube video

where this person had started stitching samplers

and adding her family names to them.

This is when the light bulb went off.

I wanted to do this for my family,

and I would use one of my newly blank walls

in our keeping room for these.

My quest then began for my first sampler.

I chose this one from Scatter Seed Samplers.

These are the DMC floss colors.

The linen I chose for this project 

is 32 ct Belfast Shale

by Picture This Plus.

Since I knew there would be many samplers

that would need to be stitched,

I ordered floss drops to keep my flosses neat

while being somewhat organized.

These came with a matching keep charm.

Not a fan of green, but green is needed in this one.

This is where I am at now.

Gertrude Osiwala Baranowski 1911-1997

Bruno Baranowski 1908-1971

My maternal grandparents.

My mom was thrilled when she saw this

at Thanksgiving. 

Then while perusing for samplers...

I came across a Halloween stitchery I wanted to do..

This one will use 40 different DMC colors. 

EGAD what was I thinking???

I also ordered more floss drops to keep 

my floss organized for this big project.

This is also the bag I purchased to hold this one in.

A fitting Halloween one.

I also purchased this fun needle minder

as they say you should not keep sticking your

needle into the fabric.

The linen for this one is

32 ct Stormy Night Lugana.

Am loving the shades of gray in this one.

I started this Halloween stitch pattern

back in the last week of October.

There are a total of 12 blocks to finish.

I told Bob if I did one block a month,

it would take me a year to complete.

Well this is block 1,

which I finished the last week of November.

Block 2 I finished Christmas evening.

Each block is 5 3/4 square.

Am hoping I can still keep finishing

a block each month, but there is quite a bit 

of coverage in each block.

Plus I want to complete my first sampler,

and my bird and pear one,

and a second sampler I started on New Year's Day.

Also I take a different cross stitch to work,

and do that one at lunch.

That makes 5 Wip's (works in progress) going.

Plus I worked on Valentine goodies

and hooked a bit on my newest rug.

Again EGAD woman...have you gone MAD???

So every post that falls on a Sunday,

will be some sort of a start that I am working on.

In other news,

Christmas Eve Bob and I worked the stores

 until 3:30.

Driving home it had already started to get foggy.

We heard the freighters sounded their foghorns

all night and into the morning.

We went to Michele's for a spectacular

Christmas dinner

My daughter out did herself

with prime rib and every veggie you could imagine.

Her stuffed mushrooms and Eclair cake were

awesome too!  

New Year's Eve we both worked each store again.

Then came home and I made a few apps,

we each had a glass of cheap champagne 

Bob had bought at the grocery store.

Surprisingly it actually did have a cork and was bubbly.

Bob went to bed at 10 and I at 11.

No watching the new year year ring in for us. LOL

Today I will work the gift shop one more time.

We will need to close to move over

 to our  antique store.

It is bittersweet, but for the best.

I have Valentine & some Spring already ordered.

Will need to get the new space ready for folks to shop.

I hope everyone enjoyed their first week of 2024.

May it be a blessed year for all.

First 2024 Post Blessings To All!

Janice